is a sci-fi dystopic performance fantasy video 13 min.
Set in the not-too-distant-future, in a society threatened by artists and children, an artist-on-the run leads her community in a Cold War dance through trains and portals.
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Marginalia for Studio XX festival HTMlles in Montreal in 2010 was a site specific installation created by the artists in the form of a multi-layered archive or “soft-library”.
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Dragu’s first solo exhibition included 2 channel video installation, repertoire cinema, and interactive archive/research web stations; curated by Nan Capogna for Richmond Art Gallery,
Exploring conflict and forgetting within public and private contexts, Dragu’s lens focuses on footage from Berlin and Belfast as well as documentation from her 2009-2011 performances of VERB WOMAN: a dance of forgetting(dedicated to her mother who had Alzheimer’s Disease); in context of creating an interactive data base researching chance operation and improvisation.
VERB WOMAN: the wall is in my head/a dance of forgettingRead More »
MARGINALIA: Aktion 1 was first presented to the public for 2005 LIVE! Biennale in Vancouver as an installation and performance at grunt Gallery; covering 3 walls entirely with squares from floor to ceiling and employing squares/paper/flour and recorded audio in a live aktion-performance.
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After a morning yoga class, Dragu created a daily performance art workshop combining gestures, movement, voice, objects and materials to explore a “daily verb aktion” and then posted on Facebook.
…VERB WOMAN at 7a*11d Festival of Performance Art TorontoRead More »
Video simulcast of live performances by Dragu & Francisco-Fernando Granados who borrowed a Dragu performance gesture from a photo he saw in an art magazine of her 1999 performance EINE KLEIN NACHT RADIO. For four years, Francisco performed Spatial Profiling as a site-specific durational drawing aktion. They two re-untied for a work exploring issues of rupture, displacement, immigration and memory.
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